How a slum dies: Part 2, in the 21st century
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday’s essay inspired by a provocative new book, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum by Sarah Wise, asked how and why a slum dies, based on the gradual and not—so-gradual elimination of London’s 1880 Old Nichol.
London, 1880
In today’s developed nations, slums are where, as the Times’ […]
